Word: boswelliana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boswell's London Journal of those nine months is part of the huge cache of Boswelliana uncovered by indefatigable poking into Irish and Scottish castles over the past quarter-century and now safely housed at Yale (TIME, Oct. 2). It is the first volume, and possibly the liveliest, of the entire 45-volume Boswell that Yale scholars are now projecting...
...latest batch of Boswelliana (more than 500 items) was discovered by the present Lord Talbot de Malahide, who launched a treasure hunt of his own after inheriting the title in 1948 from Boswell's great-great-grandson. In accordance with the arrangement his family had made, he sold the papers to Lieut. Colonel Ralph H. Isham, Manhattan Boswell collector who has purchased all the Malahide and Fettercairn finds. By last week the collecting colonel had sold them in turn to his old alma mater, Yale...